We have been teaching a part member family for a while
now. The mom, Brindi, was less-active and married a non-member. They
have four adorable little kids and she wants the gospel in her life and
in her families lives. She invited us to teach her daughter because she
is seven and is preparing to get baptized but now we are teaching her
father Jez. We have taught them a lot and we committed Jez to be
baptized on the 15th of this month!! Then after he is confirmed on Sunday
and when he gets the priesthood he is going to baptize his daughter!
When he said he would get baptized his wife was crying and the spirit
was so strong that he started to cry. Then the whole little family was
just hugging and smiling together because we told them that they could
be an eternal family! They are striving to do all they can to get to the
temple to be sealed as a family for time and all eternity.
That is what the Church is all about! Bringing families and
individuals back into the presence of our Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ. It's about true and everlasting happiness. I am so grateful for
my parents and that they taught me the gospel in our home. I love this
Church and I'm so grateful for our Savior who made it this all
possible.
Guess who finally came to church this week!!! John!
Oh my gosh, that was a wonderful day. We had a lot of "seekers" there
and it was really exciting. He's finally moving forward and tonight we
are going to meet with him and set a baptismal date for the 15th as
well. We have taught him everything and met with him a lot. Now he needs
to act and ask God if this is right. He's had a hard time praying and
we hope that Sunday made some things change for him. We will see though! I really hope he says yes!
We taught Brian yesterday and he is really making
progress. He reads and studies a lot and always has questions for us. I
love how much effort he is putting in to find the truth for himself. We
found out that he smokes... funny we never realized that. I have no idea
how they hid that from us. But he wants to quit and I know that with
the Lord's help he can do anything! We tried to set a date for the 22nd
and he wasn't comfortable with it and wanted to talk to his wife first.
But he wants this. I know he wants to be a member and he wants to have a
testimony of his own. We taught him about fasting and he said that he
is going to fast and come to church on Sunday
in hopes that he will receive his answer that this church is true. I am
so excited for him to receive revelation for himself. Today he called
me and said, "I made my first highlight in the Book of Mormon today!" It
was so fun to hear him excited about Alma 32:21, which talks about
faith. He is an incredible seeker and will definitely "find".
Jennifer is another person we are teaching. She has
had all the lessons and has read the Gospel Principles book. She is a
good family friend to a young family in the ward and she loves the
spirit that she feels in their home. She wants the blessings of the
gospel and keeps all of her commitments! She prays and reads and comes
to church and I am so excited for her to have a date set for her to be
cleansed from all her sins and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The
Lord loves his children so much. I am so excited when we can all live
together again "in a state of never-ending happiness."
Now to tell you about my new little Dane :) Our new
missionary waiting for her visa for Denmark is awesome. Such a blessing
to have in this companionship and I love having more help with all these
people we are teaching.
We keep finding more to teach and I didn't even
tell you about the Houston family! Gah! We are busy! But that's how it
should be. ;)
Thanks for all the prayers! As you can tell from what I just wrote- they are definitely working!
"Let go and let God"
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